Everyone is a little bit unsettled this morning!

Everyone is a little bit unsettled to say the least this morning.

EI is rapidly engulfing Steel Poppy. All the Valley horses pretty miserable & Jan reports that their temps don't really reflect how miserable some of them are. Also that you can't tell just by looking at them if they are affected or not. The virus is steadily marching down the Valley as the horses in Simpson's paddocks all spiked temps yesterday afternoon, yet none coughed or looked ill. The foals/yearlings at the house definitely have it. The pregnant mares (Bremervale Rosalind & Caneagle Silver Queen) and stallion, Mandala Mozart are free at this stage. A very depressing evening where everything got a dose of oral bute and the magic cough expectorant & Jan got covered in muck of all descriptions - red stuff, green stuff and half chewed stuff.

All the horses at Kalkadoon are now infected. Pinjarra was the last affected, but he is now coughing too. Safari and Vipsania have the most vile hacking coughs ever to be heard. Nev's (Ralvon Nevara) has come down from the high 40s and stabilised. Lots of snot here. Temps being managed with bute, though the over 40s did get flunixin. Karen also rang John Kohnke and he gave her a recipe for an anti-viral throat mixture:
30mls glycerine
1ml 10% iodine (betadine) - can use betadine sore throat gargle from the chemist)
Karen also adding honey
Mix together and this goes over the tongue.

Kalkadoon horses are still eating but it is obvious they have "sore throats" as they are reluctant and very slow to eat their hay, especially anything stalky. Suggest wetting down feeds and making them as easy to eat as possible - wet foods such as Copra, Speedi-Beet, molasses water, brans and pelleted foods - made into slushy feeds working the best.

Lanamere reports horses holding but is ramping it up after hearing about the Toft mare. They are monitoring their pregnant mares more intensely & the adding the trimeth-sulpha drugs to their feed. All of them are snotty at this stage.

Note that the mare at Wayne Beasley's Charaway Stud suffered a caeser b/c of a deformed foal not EI. Though Charaway does have EI.

The Ryan horses at Pullenvale are still temping normal, despite living across the road from living breathing "snot dragons".

The mare at TE is a mare called "Jane" but unsure of registered name. According to the meeting across town last night Peter reported that they have 3 on drips, obv. one was this mare and another nine horses are struggling, which is 12 altogether. Apparently the hotter weather isn't helping.

Beauzephalis is doing okay at this stage.

Over the Brisbane River from Bremervale Arabian Stud the residents report the broodmare band can be heard......cough, cough, cough....ad nauseum. The cough is reported to be torturous.

The EI hounds.....must be baying at our gate......